Feeling a little poorer these days? Your salary (if you're lucky enough to still have one) probably hasn't changed much lately, but the amount of goods and services it can cover has surely shrunk. Just check your grocery and gas bills. And wait until the hangover from Ben Bernanke's Treasury-bond-buying binge kicks in.

What better time, then, to shine a light on all the overpriced stuff — rip-offs, you might call them — draining your already depleted coffers?

We're not talking about fraud here, though there's certainly a bit of that going around too. We're talking about all the ways, within the law, that we allow ourselves to get taken for a ride. For a complete list of the TWENTY...clickHERE

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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."Honore de Balzac

"Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it."~Harry S. Truman